Ahead of International Workers' Day on 1 May 2026, the People's Coalition for Decent Work in Indonesia convened an online discussion bringing together speakers from journalism, platform-work, healthcare, university and women's, LGBTIQ+ and disability organisations. Each set out a different face of the gap between the official rhetoric of “decent work” and the conditions imposed on workers under the Prabowo–Gibran government. The shared conclusion is political: decent work cannot be detached (…)

On 21 April 2026, the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Civil Society Coalition Against Impunity against Minister of Culture Fadli Zon for his public denial of the mass rapes of ethnic Chinese women during the May 1998 violence that preceded the fall of the dictator Suharto. The court declined jurisdiction on procedural grounds, leaving the substance untested. The organisation Perempuan Mahardhika (Free Women) calls on President Prabowo Subianto to (…)

Andrea Ferrario examines the launch of DeepSeek V4 as a window onto the structural constraints facing China's AI industry. Behind a competent but delayed open-source model lies a failed migration to Huawei chips, a continuing dependence on Nvidia hardware shared by every Chinese frontier developer, and revenue gaps with US firms that approach a ratio of one to two hundred. Ferrario traces how DeepSeek itself has shifted from idealistic research laboratory to commercial enterprise, and argues (…)

This article, originally presented at a seminar in Amsterdam in January 2012 commemorating the work of Daniel Bensaïd, examines the French Marxist philosopher's contributions to the theory of permanent revolution. Pierre Rousset traces how Bensaïd and his generation reappropriated and reformulated this foundational concept of revolutionary Marxism, moving beyond rigid orthodoxy whilst maintaining its strategic relevance.
Rousset explores several key dimensions: how the theory of permanent (…)

La Convention des Nations Unies sur le génocide de 1948 énumère cinq actes qui constituent un génocide lorsqu'ils sont commis avec l'intention de détruire, en tout ou en partie, un groupe. Les deux premiers concernent les meurtres de masse et les atteintes graves à l'intégrité physique ou mentale. Les quatrième et cinquième visent à interrompre la continuité biologique d'un groupe. La troisième interdiction, énoncée à l'article II(c), interdit « de soumettre délibérément le groupe à des (…)